Following the publication of stories in the Washington Post earlier this month that allege former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez may have...
Colombia: Former president Uribe labels journalists “terrorism sympathisers”
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Kazakhstan: Reporter, activist to be sued for libel
A rights activist and RFE/RL correspondent in Kazakhstan is being sued for libel after she alleged children at a special needs school were being...
Uzbekistan: Freelance journalist under investigation
Elena Bondar, an Uzbekistani freelance journalist who was briefly detained at Tashkent airport last week, has been notified that she is to be...
Venezuela: Censored magazine re-opens, executives still charged
A judge has this week lifted a week-old court ruling banning the distribution of a Venezuelan magazine after it published a satirical...
Nepal: Newspaper distributor attacked for cartoon
Khagendra Basnet, distributor of a local daily called Nigarani, was threatened on 22 August in eastern Nepal. According to reports, the individual...
Vietnam: Pro-democracy activists released
On 2 September, the Vietnamese government granted amnesty to 10,000 detainees, including blogger Nguyen Van Tinh and poet Tran Duch Thach, in...
Ecuador: Journalist sentenced to prison flees to Miami
After being sentenced to three years in prison for defamation, an Ecuadorian journalist has fled the country and sought refuge in Miami, according...
Fiji: Ministry of Information tightens censorship
Today, Fiji's Ministry of Information sent a mass e-mail asking media outlets and journalists to send all news headlines to censors half an hour...
Brazil: Publisher and journalists to pay 170,000 USD for criticising judge
The Brazilian Superior Court of Justice this week sentenced J.L. Editora, publisher of the newspaper Folha do Espirito Santo, and journalists...
Syria: Famous cartoonist attacked
Syrian political cartoonist Ali Farzat was abducted for several hours yesterday while driving home from his office in Damascus. The masked members...
Cambodia: Land rights group suspended
The Cambodian government this month suspended land rights group Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT), which had been critical of government-backed evictions...
Philippines: Radio commentator fatally shot
Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot radio commentator Niel Jimena, 42, on Monday night near his home in the Negros Island town of E.B. Magalona,...
